Henry Selick considered leaving filmmaking after Pixar scrapped his previous movie, 'The Shadow King.' He's gotten the rights back and could make it someday. According to him, John Lasseter 'tried to Disney-fy it until the budget went through the roof'
began life when he ran into then-Pixar creative John Lasseter at Skywalker Sound while completing 2009’s“He really loved the movie, loved what he was seeing, and then they screenedat Pixar and everyone liked it. And they offered me a deal to make a stop-motion film. And it had to be for a much lower budget than the CG films,” says Selick. “Stop-motion films have never out of the gate been as successful as big CG films. The best stop-motion films live forever, though.
Then Alan Horn came to Disney as film boss and the movie was shut down. “Basically, John Lasseter couldn’t help himself. He tried to Disney-fy it until the budget went through the roof. It got shut down, and I was kind of down, I wasn’t sure I was going to make another movie again. But then theshow started on Comedy Central, and it was Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele who kind of inspired me to do another film. I loved what they did so much.
During the conversation, Selick delves into the making of the movie, elaborating on the story, character design, influences , as well as a nod to
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